Feeds
Imagine you want to follow the entries of this blog. You can bookmark this blog, and refresh it every few days, to see what I have to offer. But to be honest, that is just creepy.
I can email a notification to your inbox. And we all really do enjoy those newsletters right in our inboxes1.
But there is another way. Each blog could have a page, where they put all their posts. And you, my dear reader, could give the link to that page to a software on your computer. That software could every half an hour, download that page, and if there is something new on that page, it could tell you about it and create a timeline of stuff to read from different blogs that you like to follow.
These kinds of pages are called feeds. 2 And the software and applications that read them are called feed readers.
You open an application on your mobile whenever you are in the mood for reading the blogs you like, and you can read them right on your phone or on your laptop or where ever, without any ads, without any popups and weird fonts or trackers or whatever! You might not even be on the bus and have no access to internet, and it is just there.
This blog also sports a feed.
For whatever platform you may want to read blogs, there are plenty of Feed readers out there, and they have been there for decades. So I will not tell you which one. But there is hardly a wrong choice out there.